Despite the Danger & Smell, I Still Love Moscow

Despite the Danger & Smell, I Still Love Moscow

Moscow? Russia? Is it safe to live there?"

This is the response I often receive when people learn I spend half of the year in Moscow. Many people from the U.S. assume that Russia is a dangerous place and that I, as a single female, should not attempt to live there. When my daughter visited me in 2004 and saw the exterior of my Stalin-era apartment building she gasped and said, "Mother, I can't believe you are living in a place like this!"

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